On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Media journalist Tom Cheredar joins us to discuss: Apple launches its credit card, Disney bundles its subscriptions, a harbor of hate on the web loses its platform, we make time slow to a crawl, and much, much more.

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Headlines

• Did you say, “˜Hey, Siri’? Apple and Amazon curtail human review of voice recordings
• The Apple [Credit] Card starts rolling out this week
• Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ Available At Launch

Audible Book of the Week

• The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
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Music Break: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by Eurythmics

Hot Topics

• Cloudflare to revoke 8chan’s service, opening the fringe website up for DDoS attacks
  • 8chan loses another ally as Congress demands that the site’s owner testify
• Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of ‘very illegal’ action ahead of election

Music Break: Time in a Bottle  by Jim Croce

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• This fan-made, stop-motion “˜The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to create

• • Einstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time

Adam Magyar – Stainless, 42 Street (excerpt) from Adam Magyar on Vimeo.

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.